Laura Kusumoto—Forterra

For the past five years, Laura Kusumoto, Vice President for the Forterra Systems' Studios has led the group in the design and production of dozens of applications of the OLIVE virtual worlds platform, for military, emergency services, medical, and corporate customers. Before coming to  Forterra Systems, Laura was President of IDO Systems, Inc., a startup that developed an MMP platform with virtual chat, dance, and robot-fighting applications. Laura received her MS in Computer Science at Santa Clara University, and has over 20 years of experience in engineering, operations, creative design, 3D graphics, and AI.